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Funny thing happened on the way to NGC...

James Sokolowski
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I've been struggling to get colors OK on images I've taken where there are significant dark dust clouds.  About 10 days ago, I started processing my wide-ish field imagery (FL - 990, ASI 6200 Full Frame camera -- 2.1 x 1.4 degrees) of NGC 1333 and again, not such great colors.  Now, Adam's just popped out with a complete tutorial set on processing very similar data on NGC 1333 so I watched the beginning bits then started to reprocess all my data.  Already my RGB looks better... actually pretty good... Yucks... Can't wait to finish this tutorial set and then finish my data on this keen-looking object and field.  

This whole astrophotography thing is a tough gig, but you're making it easier and more intuitive.

Thanx tons
Jim

Comments

  • BlockHeadBlockHead
    This is really great to hear.
    Please do post your results... would love to see them.
    -the Blockhead
  • James Sokolowski
    Here's the current version of my NGC 1333 data.  This is about 6-7 hrs integration in LRGBHa.  All were used to create a synthetic luminance, which was then used as Luminance in downstream processing.  Ha never really got used, but I may try to work that in, as I try to improve results.  

    Scope is my TOA 130 w/ an ASI 6200 MM... filters are Optolong 2" and my backyard is about 20 miles S. of Houston, so Bortle 7... esp 'bad' to the north... argghhhh... 

    Clearly the molecular stuff is nicely pronounced, but some of the coloring is a bit off.  I like the reflection nebulae, but zooming into the HII regions shows some iffy behavior...

    Overall I'm pretty happy with it so far... I'll likely go back several steps and try to improve before calling it a done deal.

    Jim
    NGC 1333 RGB SynLum.jpg
    7860 x 6124 - 4M
  • James Sokolowski
    that's 6-7 hrs in each band.... not together !!
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